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Boot from SATA hard disk
Name: sabas Date: March 7, 2007 at 05:24:06 Pacific OS: winXP CPU/Ram: Intel 2.4Ghz/512Mb
Comment:
I had 2 IDE hard disks with winXP Pro on one of them. Now I want to add a SATA (Seagate 320Gb) and make it a bootable disk. So I installed winXP Pro on it and I successfully did that. The problem, however, is that my PC does not boot from the SATA as I want it to. Instead, it keeps booting from the previous one (ie. IDE hard disk). Help please,
Name: seawatch Date: March 7, 2007 at 06:27:15 Pacific
Reply:
Did you set the SATA drive to be the 1st boot device in the BIOS?
If you didn't the computer will go to the IDE drive every time.
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Response Number 2
Name: seawatch Date: March 7, 2007 at 08:55:25 Pacific
Reply:
If you installed the os (XP) then you don't need any drivers.
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Response Number 3
Name: sabas Date: March 7, 2007 at 22:10:03 Pacific
Reply:
I looked around BIOS to enable this feature but I can't find it. It seems my mobo (AsRock P4S61) is too old to get it integrated. What I found in Boot tab is: 1st: Floppy disk 2nd: DVD 3rd: Maxtor (one of my IDE hard disk) Absolutely no SATA at all.
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